When Time Was On My Side

When life began for me

As a youngster going nowhere

not concerned about the grime

until I found a second chance

among the pendulums of time

This urchin of the London scene

became a master of the zones

dispensed the minutes ticking by

clocks amazing Frank Hope Jones

From Liberty’s to Selfridges
all the sciences and the law

Whitehall and Bank of England

I spent time in every door

Every system made one ponder
how time will finally unlock

the secrets of the everything

with a calibrated master clock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hope-Jones 

What a terrific break for a young man such as I. Having no real idea of what ambition and aspiration meant I happened upon a Synchronome opportunity to become useful. 

This job for a callow youth took me in and around every important London Institution. Beyond that all over Great Britain and eventually Europe and the USA. Life to me is the opportunities one takes full advantage of.